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Opera

Die Zauberflöte
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Presentation
Masterpieces reveal new meanings when we ask different questions of them.— Jean Starobinski

Die Zauberflöte is one of Mozart’s most famous works and one of the most beloved of the entire operatic repertoire. Generations of spectators have been fascinated by the melodies and adventures of Papageno, the Queen of the Night, Tamino, and Pamina, the ordeals faced by the young lovers, and the work’s inexhaustible allegorical depth. The director Romeo Castellucci has deliberately stepped back from the narrative dimension of the opera in order to explore its raw emotion and its philosophical heart. For his part, the conductor Antonello Manacorda brings Mozart’s immortal music to life with the help of an outstanding cast that includes Sabine Devieilhe, one of today’s finest interpreters of the Queen of the Night.

Synopsis

The hero, Tamino, sets out to rescue Pamina, the daughter of the Queen of the Night, with whom he is in love and who has been abducted by Sarastro. Sarastro presides over a society into which Tamino is invited: he must undergo a number of trials, at the end of which he will be granted Pamina’s hand. Throughout this adventure, Tamino is accompanied by the bird-catcher Papageno, who also meets his own future partner, Papagena.
Isn’t Sarastro, however, in the promises he makes to the young people, manipulative? Is he not, moreover, the beneficiary of a cult and of slaves, in contradiction with his egalitarian principles? Should we not, accordingly, believe in the sincerity of the Queen of the Night and of the outburst in which she expresses her wounded maternal feelings?

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Dates & tickets

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Location

La Monnaie

Running time

3 hours 20 minutes (with interval)

Prices

Gold - € 159
Cat 1 - € 129 / Cat 2 - € 99
Cat 3 - € 85 / Cat 4 - € 62
Cat 5 - € 34 / Cat 6 - € 10

Language

Sung in German
Surtitles in Dutch and French

Presentation

Pre-performance talks 30' before the start of the performances

Streaming

live on ARTE Concert, Mezzo, La Trois, Musiq3, Klara
27.09.2018

streaming on
www.lamonnaie.be/en/streaming
15.10 > 4.11.2018

Gallery

Gallery

 

auberflote-introduction
Die Zauberflöte - Introduction par Antonio Cuenca Ruiz by La Monnaie De Munt
Dates & tickets

Dates

  • Tue 18 Sept 2018

    Time

    20:00

    Venue

    La Monnaie

  • Thu 20 Sept 2018

    Time

    20:00

    Venue

    La Monnaie

  • Fri 21 Sept 2018

    Time

    20:00

    Venue

    La Monnaie

  • Sun 23 Sept 2018

    Time

    15:00

    Venue

    La Monnaie

  • Tue 25 Sept 2018

    Time

    20:00

    Venue

    La Monnaie

  • Wed 26 Sept 2018

    Time

    20:00

    Venue

    La Monnaie

  • Thu 27 Sept 2018

    Time

    20:00

    Venue

    La Monnaie

  • Fri 28 Sept 2018

    Time

    20:00

    Venue

    La Monnaie

  • Sun 30 Sept 2018

    Time

    15:00

    Venue

    La Monnaie

    Infos

    with audio description

  • Tue 02 Oct 2018

    Time

    20:00

    Venue

    La Monnaie

  • Wed 03 Oct 2018

    Time

    20:00

    Venue

    La Monnaie

  • Thu 04 Oct 2018

    Time

    20:00

    Venue

    La Monnaie

Cast
Cast

Conductor ANTONELLO MANACORDA (18, 20, 21, 25, 27, 28, 02, 03)
BEN GLASSBERG (23, 26, 30, 04)

Director, set design, costumes, lighting ROMEO CASTELLUCCI
Choreography CINDY VAN ACKER
Algorithmic architecture MICHAEL HANSMEYER
Artistic collaboration SILVIA COSTA
Added dialogues CLAUDIA CASTELLUCCI
Dramaturgy PIERSANDRA DI MATTEO, ANTONIO CUENCA RUIZ
Chorus master MARTINO FAGGIANI

Sarastro GÁBOR BRETZ
TIJL FAVEYTS (20, 23, 26, 28, 02, 04)

Tamino ED LYON
REINOUD VAN MECHELEN (20, 23, 26, 28, 02, 04)

Sprecher DIETRICH HENSCHEL
Königin der Nacht SABINE DEVIEILHE
JODIE DEVOS (20, 26, 28, 02, 04)

Pamina SOPHIE KARTHÄUSER
ILSE EERENS (20, 23, 26, 28, 02, 04)

Erste Dame TINEKE VAN INGELGEM
Zweite Dame ANGÉLIQUE NOLDUS
Dritte Dame ESTHER KUIPER
Papageno GEORG NIGL
Papagena ELENA GALITSKAYA
Monostatos, ein Mohr ELMAR GILBERTSSON
Erster Priester / Zweiter geharnischter Mann GUILLAUME ANTOINE
Zweiter Priester / Erster geharnischter Mann YVES SAELENS
Drei Knaben AXEL BASYURT (20, 23, 26, 28, 02, 04), SOFIA ROYO CSÓKA, ALEJANDRO ENRIQUEZ (20, 23, 26, 28, 02, 04), TOBIAS VAN HAEPEREN, ELFIE SALAUDDIN CRÉMER, AYA TANAKA (20, 23, 26, 28, 02, 04)

Dancers
STÉPHANIE BAYLE, MARIA DE DUENAS LOPEZ, LAURE LESCOFFY, SERENA MALACCO, ALEXANE POGGI, FRANCESCA RUGGERINI, STEFANIA TANSINI, DANIELA ZAGHINI, TIMOTHÉ BALLO, HIPPOLYTE BOUHOUO, LOUIS-CLÉMENT DA COSTA, EMMANUEL DIELA NKITA, AURÉLIEN DOUGÉ, JOHANN FOURRIÈRE, PAUL GIRARD, NUHACET GUERRA, GUILLAUME MARIE, TIDIANI N’DIAYE, XAVIER PEREZ

Amateur actors
DORIEN CORNELIS, JOYCE DE CEULAERDE, MONIQUE VAN DEN ABBEEL, KATTY KLOEK, LORENA DÜRNHOLZ, JAN VAN BASTELAERE, MICHIEL BUSEYNE, JOHNNY IMBRECHTS, YANN NUYTS, BRECHT STAUT

Actors
SOPHY RIBRAULT, CINZIA ROBBIATI, MICHAEL ALEJANDRO GUEVARA, GIANFRANCO PODDIGHE, BOYAN DELATTRE / AMOS SUCHEKI

La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
MM Academy & La Monnaie's Children's and Youth Chorus, led by Benoît Giaux

ProductionDE MUNT / LA MONNAIE
Co-production OPÉRA DE LILLE (2019)

With the support of THE BELGIAN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’S TAX SHELTER, IN COOPERATION WITH PROSPERO MM PRODUCTIONS SA/NV AND TAXSHELTER.BE, POWERED BY ING